NATHALIE JOLIVERT PORTFOLIO 2008 PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN 2012 PORT-AU-PRINCE HAÏTI 2014
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ACADEMIC PROJECTS AA Visiting School in Haïti 2014: Pixelating Bamboo P. 2 Le Manoir Alexandra P. 2 Principles of Ecological Design: Weaving Dreams of Wale’Keru P. 2 Davis Park Pavilion: Weaving with Wood P. 2 PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS SOS Centre-Ville | Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire (CIAT) P. 2 Saint-Margaret Convent | Studio Drum CollaborativeP. 2 École Élie Dubois | Architecture For HumanityP. 2 ART GALLERY EXPERIENCE RISD Architecture Gallery Wintersession Competition II: Symbiosis P. 2 RISD Multicultural Affairs Art Gallery Exhibition Posters and Image gallery P. 2 FINE-ARTS Switzerland Embassy in Haïti | Mural Competition P. 2 Adieu P. 2 Dos Creux I S- Playing with Bones P. 2 Mango Heart P. 2 ABOUT Biography and Curriculum Vitae P. 44
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ACADEMIC PROJECTS Selected projects accomplished for the Bachelors degree of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design from 2009 to 2012 , and at the Architectural Association Visting School in Haïti in January 2014 AA Visiting School in Haïti 2014: Pixelating Bamboo P. 2 Le Manoir Alexandra P. 2 Principles of Ecological Design: Weaving Dreams of Wale’Keru P. 2 Davis Park Pavilion: Weaving with Wood P. 2
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Pixelating Bamboo | AA Visiting School in Haïti 2014 The Architectural Association (AA) Visiting School took place for the first time in Haiti on January 2014. John Naylor, AA graduate whose Foster + Partners Award winning thesis project explored the use of bamboo in construction in Haïti, led this intensive workshop for 10 days in the mountains of Kenscoff. The studio introduced various computational software to design a guest-house or pavilion, with the use of bamboo, for the Wynne Farm Ecological Reserve. While bamboo is often treated as a low-tech material, we were encouraged to learn about and propose the use of cutting-edge building technologies in our projects. For this workshop, I collaborated with Jean-Eddy Samedi an architecture student from the Haitian college Université de Quisqueya. Our design proposal was driven by three main factors: First, we were captivated by an old adobe block compressor, which had remained on our proposed site. The machine belonged to Victor Wynne, an American civil engineer whose passion for Haiti and protection of its fragile ecology inspired him to establish the Wynne Farm Ecological Reserve. Secondly, our site provided interesting screened views of the city of Port-au-Prince beyond the trunks and foliage of tall pine trees. Those views triggered our interest for the play of density and porosity of materials. And finally, beyond the tall pine trees, we could also see the terracing that Victor Wynne implemented to protect the hillsides of Kenscoff from erosion. Terracing is an agricultural method similar to a retaining wall which over time seems to merge with the natural ground.
From Victor Wynne’s adobe block compressor we found our construction method: mesmerized by the adobe block compressor which stood like a monument on our site, we wanted to use bamboo in the oldest construction method of brick-laying. As precedent, we found an Italian architecture office “Studio Cardenas” and their recent production of bamboo blocks for the design of planters. A bamboo block is made by cutting a piece of bamboo stem, slicing it into four pieces and gluing those pieces together, inside-out, into a cubic shape. In our proposal, we would alternate adobe blocks and bamboo blocks: adobe blocks for the heavier base and bamboo blocks as the building grows taller.
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Pixelating Bamboo | AA Visiting School in Ha誰ti 2014
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Le Manoir Alexandra et ses jardins This architectural thesis seeks to foster a beneficial cultural exchange within the city of Jacmel and with the global community by transforming the Manoir Alexandra into a house museum that challenges cultural assimilation and provides exhibition and performance spaces. The house museum itself is dedicated to the exhibition of Oath of the Ancestors (1822), a historic painting that reveals a narrative of European dominance in conflict with Afro-Caribbean heritage. Visitors’ movement through the house museum into its gardens follows a spiral pattern reminiscent of an iron spiral staircase, a common architectural characteristic in Jacmel that is in fact imported from Europe.
La Place d’Armes Rue d’Orléans
Le Manoir Alexandra House-Museum
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The spiraling pathway ends in the Manoir’s garden, where Jacmel’s dance academy studios are nestled in dense vegetation in an atmosphere recalling forest dance rituals during colonial times. Throughout this architectural thesis and this accompanying text, complex narratives from past and present are stitched together, acknowledging a history that deals precisely with the cultural clash that may occur when those two worlds collide.
WHITE CUBE EXHIBITION SPACE FOR “LE SERMENT DES ANCÊTRES”
RENÉ DÉPESTRE READING ROOM COFFEE & WINE BAR CELLAR NEW DANCE SPACES
New Dance Spaces
Rue Seymour Pradel
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Le Manoir Alexandra
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Le Manoir Alexandra et ses jardins
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Principles of Ecological Design: Weaving Dreams of Wale’ Keru
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Principles of Ecological Design: Weaving Dreams of Wale’ Keru The RISD studio, Principles of Ecological Design, was a collaboration with the architecture students of the Autonomous University of the Caribbean in Colombia. This Colombian school had been engaged by the Wayuu, an indigenous tribe, to help expand their village with the addition of a school, a clinic and commercial center. My proposal focuses on a tourist-accessible commercial center and is reminiscent of a traditional Wayuu structure, the enramada. There are no walls in the enramada. In this open space, the Wayuu welcome guests, weave and take naps in chinchorros (hammocks). This commercial center is also designed to allow interaction, between the local and global communities. Women would sell their woven goods in small enramadas situated around a central communal eating space, where tourists could enjoy Wayuu cuisine. An interweaving of different cultures would be fostered through mutual benefits.
Through the strength of being alive, the fruits of the cactus still nourish the peace of the birds Dreams still reconcile us with our dead...
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... Our women still weave our life. Vito Aphsama, Wayuu Poet.
Wale’ Keru, the spinning spider: The Wayuu people believe to have inherited their ability to weave from Wale’Keru, the spinning spider. Wale’Keru lost her mother when she was very young. Her father worked all day and left her home under the surveillance of his sisters. Wale’Keru’s aunts mistreated her and exploited her for domestic tasks. One day, Wale’Keru’s father woke up and found a beautifully woven cloth by his chinchorro. When he asked who had woven that cloth, his sisters told him they had. This went on for several days. One night, Wale’Keru’s father found Wale’Keru weaving in her dwelling and realized she was the skillful weaver who had been leaving the beautiful clothes by his chinchorro. Ashamed that he had never paid attention to her, he hid from her the next day. A little before dawn, he decided to talk to Wale’Keru and ask her for forgiveness. Perhaps he was too late, for Wale’Keru had turned into a spider and ran away from home, forever. The legend does not explain how Wale’Keru was able to pass her weaving skills down to other women but the art of weaving has always been seen as practiced by women. Some describe the Wayuu as a society where the women do all the work and the men, nothing. The economics of this culture focus on the art of weaving.
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Principles of Ecological Design: Weaving Dreams of Wale’ Keru
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Davis Park Pavilion : Weaving with Wood
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Davis Park Pavilion: Weaving with Wood The Architectural Design Principles Studio at RISD starts with a collaborative design-build exercise. For this project we were assigned to design a structure which could provide seating or shading in Davis Park, a public park located in West Providence. The only construction materials allowed were wood members and rope. In our group, our goal was to be economical, and our design approach was to merge the art of weaving with space structure methods, for the design of a dynamic piece. In our final proposal, the interweaving of wood and rope allowed for the assembly of a sculptural pavilion through which people could walk safely. Although our project did not provide as much shading as we hoped, it challenged us to learn about innovative design solutions, strength of materials, structure and the power of connection details.
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PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS Work produced for various architecture and urban design offices in Port-au-Prince, Haïti: Architecture For Humanity (2013), Ateliers Laroche (2014), Studio Drum Collaborative (2014) and the Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire (2014) S.O.S. Centre-Ville | Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire P. 2 Saint Margaret Convent | Studio Drum Collaborative P. 2 Centre d’Éducation Spéciale | Ateliers Laroche P. 2 École Élie Dubois | Architecture For Humanity P. 2
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S.O.S. Centre-Ville
While working at Studio Drum Collaborative, I was contracted by the Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire (CIAT) to participate in a series of workshops with the property-owners of buildings that were affected during the earthquake of January 12, 2010. Those property owners organized themselves into a neighborhood committee called “S.O.S. Centre-Ville”. For this project, I worked on a visual document for the guidelines of reconstruction for Downtown Port-au-Prince. This project focuses on 6 pilot urban-blocks surrounding a public park called “La Place Geffrard”. The images I produced for this project were featured in Haiti’s exhibition booth during the World Urban Forum 7 in Medellín, Colombia (April 2014).
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Saint-Margaret Convent
While working at Studio Drum Collaborative, I was contracted by the Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire (CIAT) to participate in a series of workshops with the property-owners of buildings that were affected during the earthquake of January 12, 2010. Those property owners organized themselves into a neighborhood committee called “S.O.S. Centre-Ville”. For this project, I worked on a visual document for the guidelines of reconstruction for Downtown Port-au-Prince. This project focuses on 6 pilot urban-blocks surrounding a public park called “La Place Geffrard”. The images I produced for this project were featured in Haiti’s exhibition booth during the World Urban Forum 7 in Medellín, Colombia (April 2014).
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École Élie Dubois
While working at Studio Drum Collaborative, I was contracted by the Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire (CIAT) to participate in a series of workshops with the property-owners of buildings that were affected during the earthquake of January 12, 2010. Those property owners organized themselves into a neighborhood committee called “S.O.S. Centre-Ville”. For this project, I worked on a visual document for the guidelines of reconstruction for Downtown Port-au-Prince. This project focuses on 6 pilot urban-blocks surrounding a public park called “La Place Geffrard”. The images I produced for this project were featured in Haiti’s exhibition booth during the World Urban Forum 7 in Medellín, Colombia (April 2014).
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ART GALLERY EXPERIENCE Work produced for various architecture and urban design offices in Port-au-Prince, Haïti: Architecture For Humanity (2013), Ateliers Laroche (2014), Studio Drum Collaborative (2014) and the Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire (2014) S.O.S. Centre-Ville | Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire P. 2 Saint Margaret Convent | Studio Drum Collaborative P. 2 Centre d’Éducation Spéciale | Ateliers Laroche P. 2 École Élie Dubois | Architecture For Humanity P. 2
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RISD Winter-Session Competition SYMBIOSIS featuring “The Earth Hut” January-February 2012
The Call for Entries:
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GUIDELINES
The participating teams must be comprised of at least three different majors and limitless amount of people.The winning team will be awarded $1000 in order to complete the project.The team members will be responsible for the construction of the project in the BEB gallery and for demounting it after the show. For this competition, all teams are required to use Digication. Create an e-portfolio (tutorial attached) with your submission & make sure to label it ‘SYMBIOSIS’. The submission process is open to any media and format that fully communicates the project’s intention.
THE BEB GALLERY WINTERSESSION SERIES PRESENTS,
SYMBIOSIS
‘a mutually beneficial relationship between different people or groups’ At RISD, Wintersession is a moment for us to gain experience outside of our majors, collaborate with designers in different fields and accomplish projects in a short time period. Given the length of Wintersession, coming together allows a group to pursue what one alone cannot do. In that spirit, ‘Symbiosis’ calls for submissions to occupy the BEB Gallery space with an installation that conveys the interdisciplinary balance needed to bring a project to fruition. Digication will serve as a platform where everybody can participate and stay updated throughout the process. For more information please email: bebgallery@risd.edu
The proposal must include:
Names of the participants , a brief project statement with the main ideas of the project and budget (materials, assembly,etc) . All projects must respect the physical limits of the existing space, including open visual and physical access to all adjacent spaces and circulation elements. Plan of the BEB Gallery is attached.
S C H E D U L E Submission Deadline: Jan 13 Winners Announced: Jan 16 Installation: Jan 16 - Feb 20 Opening Reception: Feb 22 Demount: Feb 26
ACKNOWLEDMENT
This project has been made possible by Jeffrey Yan (B.Arch 2006), co-founder of Digication
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RISD Winter-Session Competition SYMBIOSIS featuring “The Earth Hut” January-February 2012
The Winning Proposal:
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RISD Winter-Session Competition SYMBIOSIS featuring “The Earth Hut” January-February 2012
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FINE ARTS Work produced for various architecture and urban design offices in Port-au-Prince, Haïti: Architecture For Humanity (2013), Ateliers Laroche (2014), Studio Drum Collaborative (2014) and the Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire (2014) S.O.S. Centre-Ville | Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire P. 2 Saint Margaret Convent | Studio Drum Collaborative P. 2 Centre d’Éducation Spéciale | Ateliers Laroche P. 2 École Élie Dubois | Architecture For Humanity P. 2
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Nathalie Jolivert 25 Rue Hereaux, Morne Sylvio-Cator, Delmas 24, Haïti | tel. (509) 3774 6884 | jolivertnathalie@gmail.com | www.jolivert.com
EDUCATION 2007- 2012
2006- 2007
Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI Bachelors of Architecture & Bachelors of Fine Arts Notable projects: -Le Manoir Alexandra, Thesis project, 2012 RISD Academics Affairs Research Grant $ 2,000.00 -Principles of ecological design, Advanced Studio project, 2011 Gensler National Diversity Award $ 10,000.00 Miss Porter’s School Farmington, CT High School Diploma | 2007 Hugues Art Award and 2007 Gold Portfolio National Scholastic Award
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2013- Present
Jan- Oct 2013
Mar-Aug 2013
Jun- Aug 2012 Jun- Aug 2011
Dec 2009 Jun- Sept 2008
Studio Drum Collaborative Port-au-Prince, Haiti Chief Operations Officer and Project Architect -Lead architect for the reconstruction of Saint-Margaret Convent for the Episcopal Diocese -Lead designer for Haitian government design guidelines of reconstruction Downtown Port-au-Prince Architecture For Humanity Port-au-Prince, Haiti Project Architect -Coordinated architectural and structural team in the production of construction documents for the rehabilitation of École Élie Dubois, historic school building located Downtown Port-au-Prince. This project was funded by the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) and leading cement company “Cimenterie Nationale d’Haïti” (CINA). Ateliers Laroche Port-au-Prince, Haiti Participated in the schematic design phase for the reconstruction of Le Centre d’Éducation Spéciale, school for children with special needs, using bamboo as primary construction material. Gensler San-Francisco, CA Participated in various projects with the Urban Design department, and contributed to a firm-wide research project on “Redefining the Town Square” Worked with Urban Design department on the 5M Project, a four acre multi-phase, mixed-use development Downtown San-Francisco. Haitian Education Leadership Program | Gingerbread House Preservation Volunteer research assistant for a prototype renovation project (World Monument Watch List 2010) Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development New-Orleans, LA Worked with Planning Committee and conducted research on post-Katrina development in the Lower Ninth Ward
ACADEMIC Jan 2013
Architectural Association Visiting School in Haiti Kenscoff, Haiti Experimental Bamboo Class at the Wynne Farm, Ecological Reserve in Haïti
Jun- Aug 2008
Bard College Urban Studies in New Orleans Urban studies, Anthropology and Geography courses on the city of New-Orleans
AWARDS & MEDIA 2012 2011 2007-2012 2009 2008 2007 2007
RISD Academic Affairs Research Grant $ 2,000.00 Gensler National Diversity Award $ 10,000.00 RISD Scholarship Program $ 200,000.00 New York Times Mention for “funeral scene” in Pupeteer play by Hanne Tierney Bard College Urban Studies in New Orleans Scholarship $ 8,000.00 Gold Portfolio National Scholastic Award Miss Porter’s School Hughes Art Award
SKILLS Technologies: Autocad, Rhinoceros, CS5 (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) Web Design: CSS + HTML Languages: French, English, Haitian Creole
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